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Grape and blue raspberry! I hope you really enjoy the break and feel restored in the fall.

I bet it was well worth it too. 🌴🌞

It certainly seems to work like that in reverse. I faceplant a pizza? - gain 10 pounds. Have some ice cream - another 7. It would be only fair.

Starting weight 261.4 W1 3/25: 261.2 (-0.2) W2 4/1: 258.0 (-3.2) W3 4/8: 256.4 (-1.6) W4 4/15: 255.6 (-0.8) W5 4/22: 255.0 (-0.6) Down again but continues to slow down. Food day at work Wednesday was a disaster. I had a really good weigh in the morning of and I was super motivated to just be reasonable... I did manage a 15 hour fast before eating anything but once I started eating it was all so good that I was far from reasonable. At least dinner out that night got cancelled. Weight jump wasn't as bad as I had feared but it's been slow to recover since plus a migraine over the weekend. This coming week brings another dinner out and some extravagances over the weekend to manage.

Well done! Love those non scale victories! And a banana! Boo. I hope you hear no news or good news by the end of the week!

Sounds like some smart changes. our bodies are dumb and just can't take a hint!

My dentist office has TVs on the ceiling above the dentist chair and they give you the remote. But then the hygienist gets all up in my face for some reason and blocks the TV! 😁

Maybe you need to bring a book and just go back to the doctor's office and sit and have a quiet read. I always like that my doctor's office has HGTV on and I can watch some home improvement show. Although I hate when I miss the big reveal.

Thanks for sharing the new song from Billy Joel. I grew up listening to him since he was one of my dad's favs. I had no idea there was a new one either. Great video too. I didn't watch it too closely (from work) but really enjoyed the montage scenes from him and his kids over the years.

Get those girlies smashed and photographed! Hope its..um.. relaxing?

Not a lie! The ladder was the scary part. Our ladder was a bit too long so it was barely angled so as DDG climbed it I had to lean against it to make sure it didn't tip back. Scary!

That seems like it will be worth the wait!

Day 19 - Friday DDG and I went out for a walk and drove by the lot for the new house. They finally broke ground a week before and on Friday we could see the basement walls had been poured. We got a 3 mile walk in and then had some Totino's pizza for dinner once we got home and showered. Day 20 - Saturday I slept in a great deal and had just enough time to chat on the phone with Peach before the empanadas were delivered by the neighbor. We spent the entire afternoon running errands that shouldn't have taken all day but somehow they always do. We intended to do some painting prep work for the weekend's house project but were were out of steam by the time we got home and I had planned to do the batch cooking a day early. On our walks over the past week we've been able to smell people grilling burgers so we had a pretty string hankering for grilled meats. So we grilled some chicken brats, some burgers, and some marinated chicken thighs to supply us for the whole week. Saturday's dinner was burgers that had some garlic butter mixed into the center, bacon, cheddar and jack cheese, and grilled brioche buns served with salads. They definitely hit the spot Day 21 - Sunday I slept in again and after a little bit of relaxing on the couch we decided to get our butts moving on some painting. We elected for an easy lunch of sandwiches so I opted for a LB and Doritos sandwich, with some grapes. Then we got to work. We were painting the stairs leading up to the hallway and the hallway. The hallway has 5 doors that all needed trim work repainted and then we needed to run borrow a ladder to get the walls above the stairway. It was all much more work than we expected and we didn't finish until evening and still had to run the ladder back. I was so very glad we had already done the batch cooking. We did stop for mini Blizzards during our trip out to pick up the ladder. I did throw some baby potatoes in the air fryer (tossed in mayo, grated parmesan, and some spices) and we had those with the grilled chicken and salads. Weekly Summary Overall this was a pretty good week. Weight loss is slowing down but as long as it stays around 1 pound a week consistently I'm perfectly happy. I'm consistently well under my calorie threshold but I think my margin of error on my logging requires it and perhaps it is set too high anyway. Now that I'm getting used to a couple hundred calories less per day without all the candy, I'm finding it easier to eat a little less when we go out. This is a pleasant outcome. I have a couple meals planned for this coming week. Hopefully I find similar results. I have been hitting the right quantity of workouts. Still no rucking but pace is staying higher than our previous average.

I've been able to get out on the deck to relax too. It feels so nice, doesn't it? I like your perspective on decluttering for summer and cozying it up for winter.

Really happy to see that you and Dave had a very productive conversation and that there is an end date to the home invasion. I hope Dave will be back home before he has to leave again so you get some time together. Absolutely LOVE your hoard of dice.